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3 terrorists trapped in a house in J&K's Anantnag; firing not on

Srinagar: A gunbattle broke out on Friday in a village in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara area between security forces and three terrorists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) who were trapped in a house, police said. The encounter started at 10am after security forces, including army personnel, cordoned off a house at Malik Mohalla in Arwani village following an intelligence tip-off that three militants were present inside, officials said. Security forces cordoned off the house by 8am and there was a patient wait for two hours before the first fire came from the house at 10am, they said. Five civilians received pellet injuries when they made an attempt to stall the ongoing counter-insurgency operation, officials said. Chatter from the terror group suggested that Junaid Mattoo, a local boy of Khudwani, was among the three trapped inside the house along with Azad Malik and a Pakistani terrorist. Mattoo had gained notoriety after he shot dead two policemen in broad daylight at the busy Anantnag bus stand in June 2016. He was seen on CCTV footage carrying out the dastardly act. Giving an update on the current situation, DIG Operations said the, “house on fire. Firing has stopped. If the terrorists are dead then it is over, or else they may have sneaked into other house. We have not seen any dead body nor arrested anyone.”
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